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Gallup goes to Macy’s for Thanksgiving

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Gallupians can see five of their neighbors on the screen as this year’s cartoon balloon animals pass by in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

Alyssa Acevedo, Shana Begay, Sophia Sanchez, Ashlin Tom and Keili Vidales will be performing and representing the Miyamura Patriette Dance Team under the banner MHS All Star...

Amanda Skobow recognized as the Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe ‘Teacher of the Month’

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Lincoln Elementary fifth-grade teacher molds inquisitive, prepared students.

Each month, Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe recognizes one local teacher within the Gallup area for his or her determination to help students go above and beyond. Prospective teachers are nominated by students who feel they deserve to be recognized. This month, Amanda Skobow of Lincoln Elementary school is the recipient of the Teacher of the Month award.

Skobow works hard to engage her students and help them develop a love of learning. She has a passion for science and math and tries to spark an interest in her students for the world around them and how it works.

“Science can be super hands-on, and it’s...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

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Week ending Friday, November 19, 2021


Dangerously Hot

Exposure to extreme heat has tripled among the world’s population since 1983, according to an analysis of population and temperature data from Columbia University. The Associated Press analysis looked at the period from 1983 to 2016 and found that the more extreme heat now affects about a quarter of the world’s population. Instead of using the more common heat index, the study looked at what is known as the wet-bulb globe temperature, which takes into account temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover. This more accurately measures the amount of stress created for workers and others who must endure the hotter...

Janice Brown Bradley Gallup Wreaths Across America

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I am grateful for our veterans.

KEEPER

Their Marriage was good, their dreams focused.

Their best friends lived barely a wave away.  I can see them now, Dad in trousers, shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in his hand, and dish-towel in hers. It was the time for fixing things.  A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress.  Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.  All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful.  Waste meant affluence.  Throwing things away meant you knew there’d always be more.

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer’s night, in the warmth...

Jennifer Lazarz, Gallup Tourism and Marketing Manager

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This is a quote that sits in a little placard on my desk. It was given to me by a friend and mentor, Pastor Reggie Hansome, when I worked as the director for a Christian summer camp during one summer of college.  “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”- William Feather.  There’s a certain strength needed to work in an often misunderstood economic development arena, so having that little sign always reminds me to hang on and keep going.

My first career, before coming to Gallup, was as an opera singer.  In late 2020 one of the greatest friends, colleagues, and musicians that I collaborated with, pianist Logan Brown, departed this world...

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